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Monckton, Hon. Robert

, great grandson of the
preceding, and a major-general in the army, was born
about 1728, and was the son of John Monckton, the first
viscount Galway, and baron of Killard, by his wife the lady
Elizabeth Manners, daughter to John second duke of Rutland. He was sent with a detachment to Nova Scotia in
1755, and served under general Wolfe against Quebec.
He dislodged a body of the enemy from the point of Levi,
and formed a plan for landing the troops near the height*
| of Abraham, and assisted in the execution for conducting
the right wing at the oattle of Quebec, where he was dangerously wounded. He received the thanks of the House of
Commons, and afterwards went to New York, where he recovered of his wounds. He was also at the taking of Martinico, and was sometime governor of Portsmouth, where
Fort Monckton was so called in honour of him. He died in
1782, leaving the character of a brave, judicious, and humane officer. In his account of the taking of Martinico
in 1762, he mentions an attack made by the French troops
from Morne Gamier on some of our posts, in which they
were repulsed, and such was the ardour of our troops,
that they passed the ravine with the enemy, seized their
batteries, and took post there. It is also said that on this
occasion the English party had no colours with them when
they took possession of the batteries, and supplied the want
of them by a shirt and a red waistcoat. From the many
instances which have been given of General Monckton’s
liberality, the following may be selected as deserving to
be remembered. When the troops were sent to Martinico,
general Amherst took away the usual allowance of baugh
and forage- money. General Monckton, knowing the difficulties which subaltern officers have to struggle with in
the best situation, felt for their distress, and in some degree to make it up to them, ordered the negroes which
were taken, to be sold, and the money divided among the
subalterns. On finding that it would not produce them
five pounds a-piece, he said he could not offer a gentleman
a less sum, and made up the deficiency, which was about
500l. out of his own pocket. He kept a constant table of
forty covers for the army, and ordered that the subalterns
chiefly should be invited, saying, he had been one himself;
and if there was a place vacant, he used to reprimand his
aid-de-camp. 1

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